“Autumn flavours”, food festivals in Italy. WILD BOAR and POTATOE FESTIVALS

Autumn is the period of great specialities from our land: new wine, apples, honey, boletus mushrooms, chestnuts, pumpkins, etc.
Autumn is time of harvests and food festivals to celebrate and praise fruits of our lands and to say goodbye to summer and to fields’ labours.

Every region in Italy celebrates its own food through festivals that last for days. Let’s go and visit just some of them:

WILD BOAR FESTIVALS
Piedmont - Migiandone di Ornavasso near Verbania (October 4th and 5th)
Lombardy – Casatenovo near Lecco (October 3rd and 4th)
Tuscany – Balconevisi near Pisa (October 17th and 18th)
Basilicata – Dugenta near Benevento (the whole weekends of September and October)

POTATOE FESTIVAL
Liguria – Rovegno near Genoa (October 4th)
Lombardy – Lazate near Milan (From 24th to 27th September)
Lombardy – Mortara near Pavia (September 26th and 27th)

Italian food - Some Recipes with POTATOES:

Neapolitan croquettes (from the Neapolitan tradition)
Potatoes, rice and mussels (from the Apulian tradition)
Gilthead bream Apulia style (from the Apulian tradition)
Pizzoccheri della Valtellina (From the tradition of Lombardy)
Potatoes Pie (from the tradition of Trentino-Alto Adige)